Wyatt Bennett

CEO

Apex, North Carolina, United States25 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led EXL's GenAI Solutions to $65M revenue growth.
Established strategic partnerships with NVIDIA and AWS.
Architected EXLerate.AI, enhancing enterprise AI capabilities.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI Solutions and Infrastructure Management with extensive experience in product strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAi SolutionsStrategic PartnershipsSolution ArchitectureInfrastructure ManagementWeb Development

Other Skills

Enterprise ArchitectureTeam BuildingCloud ComputingTechnical LeadershipPre-sales StrategyTechnical EngagementsProduct DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesInfrastructure DesignOperational ServicesWeb and Application ArchitectureMessaging PlatformsLeading transformational changeEngineering ManagementDistributed Systems

About

As SAVP of AI Product and Solution Engineering, I lead a variety of development, delivery, and partnership initiatives in EXL's AI Solutions business, across Insurance, Banking, and Healthcare verticals. My work includes driving product management of EXLerate.ai, an agentic AI platform, and building strategic partnerships and solutions with NVIDIA, AWS and others. With over 20 years in product management, engineering leadership, and transformational change, I am committed to leveraging AI, cloud-native, and hybrid technologies to transform client workflows and accelerate business outcomes bridging platform, process, and people. I focus on developing and delivering innovative solutions that exceed client needs while fostering collaboration with executives, cross functional teams, and strategic partners to advance EXL’s position in the market.

Experience

25 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

7 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Exl

SAVP of Digital AI Solutions at EXL

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Engineering and pre-sales leadership for EXL’s GenAI Solutions business. Own solution strategy, technical wins, and customer architecture across Insurance, Banking, and Healthcare verticals.
Helped establish EXL’s NVIDIA practice and partnership—contributing to EXL’s recognition as NVIDIA Partner of the Year. Lead joint go-to-market and co-engineering with NVIDIA, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and the broader LLM/observability ecosystem.
Direct engineering and pre-sales leadership across EXL’s Digital Solutions portfolio—delivering intelligent automation for claims, underwriting, lending, collections, and care-management workflows.
Architected and launched EXLerate.AI, EXL’s agentic GenAI platform, on a foundation of NVIDIA AI Enterprise—NeMo for model development, NIM for production inference—giving solution-engineering teams a unified set of demo-ready capabilities to anchor enterprise deals and shorten time-to-proposal.
Drive technical wins through executive briefings, RFP/POC engagements, and customer architecture reviews; scaled the GenAI business from $30M to $65M with 25% YoY margin improvement.
Built repeatable solution accelerators and reference designs that compress sales cycles, improve win rates, and de-risk customer implementations across regulated industries.
Stood up firm-wide Engineering Best Practices, Responsible AI, and DevSecOps/CI-CD governance—turning compliance and trust into pre-sales differentiators with enterprise buyers.

Enterprise ArchitectureTeam BuildingAI SolutionsProduct ManagementCloud ComputingStrategic Partnerships+1

Netapp

3 roles

Principal, Product Management, NetApp Solutions Group

Jun 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Eight years directing solution architecture, partner co-development, and pre-sales technical strategy across NetApp’s Converged Infrastructure Solutions Group ($2B+ annual revenue).
Principal — NetApp Solutions Group 2018 – 2022
Owned solution strategy and reference designs for FlexPod, NetApp’s flagship multi-vendor Converged Infrastructure platform—co-engineered with Cisco, AWS, Microsoft, and VMware for joint enterprise pursuits.
Led pre-sales technical engagements with strategic accounts; presented at executive briefings, industry conferences, and partner advisory boards as the technical voice for the portfolio.
Built and integrated the solution-engineering team behind an acquired cloud-management SaaS; grew bookings to $1M+ in year one with $1M+ in accretive support revenue and scaled the team from 5 to ~70 under SAFe Agile.
Senior Solution Architect — Converged Infrastructure Solutions2014 – 2018
Defined multi-vendor reference architectures for VDI, MS SQL, and Oracle workloads, plus multi-tenant designs (OpenStack, PaaS, Hybrid Cloud), giving pre-sales teams plug-and-play assets for enterprise deals.
Drove FlexPod CI management and orchestration improvements that cut customer deployment time from 40 hours to 1 hour—turning operational simplicity into a flagship pre-sales differentiator.

Enterprise ArchitectureTeam BuildingSolution ArchitecturePre-sales StrategyTechnical EngagementsProduct Management

Principal, Product Management, NetApp FlexPod Solutions

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Responsible for key product and go-to-market initiatives for FlexPod® ($2B+/yr) software, solutions and channel services -- developing requirements while providing market-based leadership of NetApp Converged Infrastructures and solution support services.

Enterprise ArchitectureTeam BuildingProduct Management

Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Converged Infrastructure Solutions

Jul 2014 – Jul 2018 · 4 yrs

Develop converged infrastructure software, products and solutions for multi-vendor (NetApp/Cisco) FlexPod portfolio
o Principle product development, positioning and go-to-market strategy for integrated infrastructure automation products
Direct Agile teams, as a product owner, in the development of infrastructure automation and management software
Shape company hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) strategy, product mix and integration points (between HCI and CI) across the portfolio
Analyze competitive market studies and adjacent product verticals to discover market trends and guide strategy
Define reference architecture designs for enterprise apps (VDI, SQL, Big Data) and infrastructure (PaaS, Hybrid Cloud)
Develop new factory-integration options featuring streamlined design tools and single-SKU ordering
Facilitate field advisory boards and drive channel partner enablement and incentivization programs
Product Focus/Technologies:
Infrastructure: NetApp ONTAP FAS/AFF storage, Cisco Nexus switching, Cisco UCS Compute
Infrastructure Management: Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco UCS Director, Cicso UCS Performance Manager
Enterprise Applications: MS SQL, Oracle, SharePoint
Virtualization: VMWare ESX/VSphere, MS Hyper-V, KVM

Enterprise ArchitectureTeam BuildingProduct DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesProduct Management

Rti international

2 roles

Senior Manager, Computing Operations

Promoted

Jun 2009 – Jun 2014 · 5 yrs

Managed IT engineering teams, as a senior leader, responsible for infrastructure design, application integration, and supporting operational services in a multi-data center hosting environment, supporting thousands of users and clients.
Directed a team of 9 senior engineers and developed Tier 1/2 operational support team activities
Managed staff and service budgets for Web/Application, Database, and File/FTP shared services
Scope/Technologies:
Enterprise Applications: MS SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, ECM, HRMS, SaaS/XaaS
Infrastructure/Hosting Applications: IIS/Apache, .NET, Tomcat, ColdFusion, High Availability Load Balancers (F5 BigIP), MS Clustering
Directory Services: Active Directory/LDAP/DNS, FTP
Security: Firewall, IPS/IDS, F5 ASM
Virtualization: VMWare ESX/VSphere

Enterprise ArchitectureTeam BuildingInfrastructure DesignOperational ServicesInfrastructure Management

Senior Web and Application Architect

Apr 2004 – Jun 2009 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Lead, senior technical role designing and integrating enterprise web, database and directory systems and services.
Specialties/Technologies:
Enterprise Applications: MS SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, ECM, HRMS, SaaS
Infrastructure/Hosting Applications: IIS/Apache, .NET, Tomcat, ColdFusion, High Availability Load Balancers (F5 BigIP), MS Clustering
Security: Firewall, IPS/IDS, F5 ASM
Virtualization: VMWare ESX/VSphere

Enterprise ArchitectureTeam BuildingWeb and Application ArchitectureWeb Development

Manpower

System Architect

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo

Acted as team lead for LAN systems/server upgrade, interfacing with local IT department to coordinate technical resources, network availability in Windows 2000 Active Directory environment.

Enterprise ArchitectureTeam Building